Work Quotes

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

Harvey Fierstein

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

Quentin Tarantino

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Henry Rollins

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

Adam Lambert

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

J. K. Rowling

The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

Simon Mainwaring

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.

Jules Ormont

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

Evander Holyfield

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Lauryn Hill

Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets .And what is it to work with love ?it is to weave the colth with threads from your heart , even as if your beloved were to wear that colth .It is to build a house with affection , even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house .It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy , even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit .It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit .He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone , is nobler than he who ploughs the soil.

Kahlil Gibran

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Baltasar Gracian

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Jesse Jackson

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Thomas Carlyle

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Agatha Christie, Endless Night b

Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength Whether in oxen or in men, we dull The edges of our ploughshares, and in return Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed, And so today the farmer shakes his head, More and more often sighing that his work, The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

Lucretius, The Way Things Are, B

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Jessica Savitch

You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.

Orson Scott Card

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

Leo Tolstoy